Word: mckean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patrol of bobbies, sometimes as a well-buckled line of officers consists of the three sons of King Gama, Neil Fairbairn, William Baker and Ted Rau: wonderful as a trio of bass clarinets. The expected Friends of the Suitor are played with tolerable alacrity by John B. McKean and David Evitts. As for the suitor himself, Hilarion, his name is, nothing more need be said than that Danius Turek is filling an accustomed role with acustomed accomplishment, to render virtue as assonance...
Roland N. McKean, Rand Corp.: The recession looks as if it will grow somewhat more severe. Most of the things proposed by the Administration are not likely to have much immediate effect on an upturn. I would look for the country's unemployment to get somewhat worse in the next three to six months...
...large barracksroom circulation, that made the Marines' Hymn and many of the corps' proudest boasts sound like the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. To compound the horror, the author was a certified leatherneck with 26 years' service in the corps, retired Brigadier General William B. McKean...
...Marines, McKean claims, were a tinhorn elite corps until World War I, when Correspondent Floyd Gibbons immortalized the 4th Marine Brigade in the Battle of Belleau Wood. Actually, Gibbons wrote his flaming story in advance, was wounded by a stray bullet that cost him his left eye, and never saw the battle he described so vividly. Nor did he mention the other 20,000 soldiers of the Army's 2nd Division, who fought just as-bravely as the 8,000 marines in the French forest. There is no question that the marines displayed surpassing gallantry at Belleau Wood...
Many marines suspected that McKean's attack was not without rancor: as a colonel, he was in charge of training at Parris Island in 1956 during the tragic drowning of six boots on a night-time disciplinary march through Ribbon Creek. Although he was not officially blamed, McKean voluntarily retired from the corps two months later, after he learned that he was about to be transferred to Panama. (His retired rank is a so-called "tombstone promotion.") At week's end, General David Shoup, the no-nonsense Marine commandant, ordered the offensive copies of Cavalier back on sale...